भारत में अंग्रेजी राज (पण्डित सुन्दरलाल - ब्रिटिश औपनिवेशिक लूट व षड्यन्त्रों का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)

१४४ पुस्तक प्रवेश
थे। सौदागर और यात्री निहायत आसानी से एक शहर से दूसरे
शहर और एक सूबे से दूसरे सूबे आ जा सकते थे, और एक
साम्राज्य की छाया में सब लोग इस विशाल देश की एकता को
अनुभव करते थे।” ❀
इतिहास कला
मुसलमानों के आने से पहले का हिन्दुओं का लिखा हुआ ऐतिहासिक
साहित्य अव्वल तो है ही बहुत कम, और जो है भी उसमें तिथियों का
क़रीब क़रीब अभाव है। इसके विपरीत अरबों के लिखे हुए इतिहासों,
यात्रा वृत्तान्तों और जीवन चरित्रों में सदा ठीक ठीक तिथि दर्ज होती है।

• " . . . . On the other hand, the two hundred years of Mughal rule,
  from the accession of Akbar to the death of Mohammad Shah (1556-1749),
  gave to the whole of Northern India and much of the Deccan also, oneness
  of the official language, administrative system and coinage and also a popular,
  lingua franca for all classes except the Hindoo priests and the stationary
  village folk. Even outside the territory directly administered by the Mughal
  Emperors, their administrative system, official nomenclature, court etiquette
  and monetary type were borrowed, more or less, by the neighbouring
  Hindoo Rajas.
  "All the twenty Indian subahs of the Mughal Empire were governed
  by means of exactly the same administrative machinery, with exactly the
  same procedure and official titles. Persian was the one language used in all
  office records, farmans, sanads, landgrants, passes, despatches and receipts.
  The same monetary standard prevailed throughout the Empire, with coins
  having the same names, the same purity and the same denominations, and
  differing only in the name of the mint-town. Officials and soldiers were
  frequently transferred from one province to another. Thus, the native of
  one province felt himself almost at home in another province; traders and
  travellers passed most easily from city to city, subah to subah, and all realised
  the imperial oneness of this vast country."—Mughal Administration, by
  Jadunath Sarkar, pp. 129, 130.